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Comptia Project + Project Management

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1. The amount of funds - budget - or time needed above the estimate to reduce the risk of overruns of project objectives to a level acceptance to the organization






2. Work breakdown structure component below the control account with known work content but without detailed schedule activities.






3. Condition or capability that must be met or possessed by a system - product - service result or component to satisfy a contract - standard - specification or other formally imposed document.






4. Approved specific version of the detailed scope statement - work breakdown structure (WBS) and its associated WBS dictionary






5. A quantitative assessment of the likely amount or outcome. usually applied to project costs - resources - effort and durations.






6. Type of procurement document used to request price quotations from prospective sellers of common or standard products or services






7. The formally documented identification of a defect in a project component with a recommendation to either repair the defect or completely replace the component






8. The person assigned by the performing organization to achieve the project objectives






9. Estimating the type and quantities of material - people - equipment or supplies required to perform the activity






10. Those processes performed to complete the work defined in the project management plan to satisfy project objectives






11. Assurance that a product - service or system meets the needs of the customer and other identified stakeholders






12. Schedule network diagramming technique in which schedule activities are represented by boxes or nodes. schedule activities are graphically linked by one or more logical relationships to show the sequence in which the activities are performed






13. Documenting project purchasing decisions - specifying the approach and identifying potential sellers






14. Technique for estimating that applies a weighted average of optimistic - pessimistic and most likely estimates when there is uncertainty with the individual activity estimates






15. A subsystem of the overall project management system. it is a collection of formal documented procedures used to apply technical and administrative direction and surveillance to identify and document the functional and physical characteristics of a p






16. Logical relationship where completion of work of the successor activity cannot finish until the completion of work of the predecessor activity.






17. Amount of time that a schedule activity can be delayed without delaying the early start date of any immediately following schedule activities.






18. Cost - time - quality - technical or resource value used as a parameter and which may be included in product specification. crossing the threshold should trigger some action.






19. Something toward which work is to be directed - a strategic position to be attained - or a purpose to be achieved - a result to be obtained - a product to produced or a service to be performed






20. A category of projects that have common components significant in such projects - but are not needed or present in all projects. application areas are usually defined in terms of either the product or the type of customer or industry sector






21. A short unique numeric or text identification assigned to each schedule activity to differentiate that project activity from other project activities. typically unique within any one project schedule network diagram






22. Any of all external environmental factors and internal organizational environmental factors that surround or influence the projects success. these factors are from any or all of the enterprises involved in the project and include organizational cultu






23. Person or organization that is actively involved in the project or whose interests may be positively or negatively affected by execution or completion of the project






24. Group of related schedule activities aggregated at some summary level and displayed as a single activity at that summary level. same as summary activity.






25. Hierarchically organized depiction of the project organization arranged so as to relate the work packages to the performing organizational units






26. Significant point or event in the project






27. One or more numerical or text values that identify characteristics of the work or in some way categorize the schedule activity that allows filtering and ordering of activities within reports






28. The sum of all budgets established for the work to be performed on a project or a work breakdown structure component or a schedule activity. the total planned value for the project






29. A technique that explores the accuracy of assumptions and identifies risks to the project from inaccuracy - inconsistency - or incompleteness of assumptions






30. The time in calendar units between the actual start date of the schedule activity and either the data date of the project schedule if the schedule activity is in progress or the actual finish date if the schedule activity is complete






31. Measure of schedule efficiency on a project. ratio of earned value (EV) and the planned value (PV). SV = EV minus PV.






32. Identifying all people or organizations impacted by the project and documenting relevant information regarding their interest - involvement and impact on project success






33. Group of related schedule activities aggregated at some summary level and displayed as a single activity (at the summary level)






34. A mutually binding agreement that obligates the seller to provide the specified product or service or result and obligates the buyer to pay for it






35. Defined function to be performed by a project team member






36. Uncertain event or condition that has a positive or negative effect on projects objectives






37. Hierarchically organized depiction of the identified project risks arranged by risk category and subcategory that identifies the various areas and causes of potential risks.






38. An information gathering technique used as a way to reach a consensus of experts on a subject. experts on the subject participate in the technique anonymously. a facilitator uses a questionnaire to solicit ideas about the important project points rel






39. Narrative description of products - services or results






40. The process of managing procurement relationships - monitoring contract performance - and making changes and corrections as needed






41. Learning gained from the process of performing the project






42. Determining project stakeholder information needs and defining a communication approach






43. The earliest point in time on which the uncompleted portions of a schedule activity can start - based on the schedule network logic - the data date and any schedule constraints.






44. Calculated projection of cost performance that must be achieved on the remaining work to meet a specified management goal. ratio of remaining work to funds remaining






45. Approved integrated scope-schedule-cost plan for the project work against which project execution is compared to measure and manage performance






46. Analyzing activity sequences - durations - resource requirements and schedule constraints to create the project schedule






47. Estimate or prediction of conditions and events in the projects future based on information and knowledge available at the time of the forecast. information is based on the project's past performance and expected future performance






48. Total number of work periods required to complete a schedule activity or work breakdown structure component.






49. The process of completing each project procurement






50. Collecting and distributing performance information - including status reports - progress measurements and forecasts